12. Local Developments by Planning Authority, 2015/16

Since a few legacy cases can skew results, particularly at
planning authority level, results in this section are only given
for post 3rd August applications. Results for all applications can
be found in the detailed excel tables at:
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Planning

12.1 Local Developments - by development type,
2015/16

Chart 51: Local developments by planning authority and
development type, 2015/16
1

1. The number in brackets gives the total number of local
development decisions by planning authority (excluding processing
agreements). See
Section
2 for further details of processing agreements

The chart shows information on the case mix for each planning
authority, ordered by the most frequent (householder) applications.
For the sixteen planning authorities from East Renfrewshire to
Stirling over half of decisions made on local developments were for
householder applications. At the other end of the scale, in
Cairngorms there were no decisions for householder applications.
The case mix may have an influence on overall average decision
times within a particular authority. For example, given that
householder applications are on average decided more quickly than
other types, it might be expected that overall average decision
times will be lower for those planning authorities that have a
higher proportion of householder applications in their case
mix.

12.2 Local Developments - average decision times,
2015/16

The chart below shows the average decision times for local
developments ordered by the number of decisions made for local
developments in each planning authority. In total there were 28,765
decisions made on local developments in 2015/16 with an overall
average decision time of 9.8 weeks.

Chart 52: Local developments by planning authority,
2015/16: Number of decisions.

Chart 53: Local developments by planning authority,
2015/16: Average decision time (weeks).

It should be expected that Cairngorms has a longer average
decision time as they have no householder applications in their
case mix. Also Cairngorms do not receive planning applications
directly but are notified of applications which have been made to
those planning authorities within the national park boundaries.
Cairngorms may then decide to call applications in for their
determination. Planning applications are likely to have already
been in the system for a number of weeks before being transferred
to Cairngorms. Due to these reasons average times for Cairngorms
applications can be expected to be higher than those of the other
planning authorities.

Glasgow City Council suffered an
IT server failure
on 14th December 2015 and normal working practices were suspended
over the course of the failure (15th December 2015 to 22nd February
2016). The failure of the
IT system had a
detrimental effect on Glasgow City planning service's ability to
process planning applications in the normal way, which consequently
has had a marked effect on their planning performance for quarter 4
of 2015/16. In turn this has also had an effect on overall 2015/16
annual averages for Glasgow City.

12.3 Local Developments - percentages under two months,
2015/16

The following chart shows the percentages of decisions made in
under two months ordered by the total number of decisions made by
each planning authority.

At Scotland level the percentage of decisions made in less than
two months was 73.4%. Aberdeenshire made the most decisions on
local developments (2,685) and 76.1% of these were made in less
than 2 months.

The following table is an extract from
Annual,
2015/16 - Table 4 and allows comparison with results from the
previous three years.

Table 7: Local Applications: Average Time & Percentage
under 2 months

Planning Authority

2012/2013

2013/2014

2014/15

2015/16

Number of applications

Percent Under 2 Months

Overall Average Time (weeks)

Number of applications

Percent Under 2 Months

Overall Average Time (weeks)

Number of applications

Percent Under 2 Months

Overall Average Time (weeks)

Number of applications

Percent Under 2 Months

Overall Average Time (weeks)

Aberdeen City

1,189

52.6%

11.9

1,227

52.2%

12.5

1,170

36.3%

14.4

1,140

46.7%

12.2

Aberdeenshire

3,075

62.7%

15.4

2,913

69.9%

12.2

2,982

65.5%

11.9

2,685

76.1%

10.7

Angus

763

80.3%

9.2

798

75.3%

8.2

737

80.6%

9.1

727

77.4%

9.2

Argyll & Bute

1,061

69.2%

11.6

1,083

76.3%

10.3

1,097

77.8%

9.5

996

73.4%

9.2

Cairngorms
NP

48

8.3%

18.3

46

19.6%

17.7

37

13.5%

21.3

7

14.3%

14.6

Clackmannanshire

192

84.9%

7.8

197

92.4%

6.8

184

94.0%

6.4

195

87.2%

6.5

Dumfries & Galloway

1,264

46.8%

12.9

1,485

50.3%

11.9

1,860

69.4%

9.5

1,110

66.9%

9.8

Dundee City

377

84.1%

7.0

438

81.7%

7.6

401

81.8%

7.8

462

77.1%

8.1

East Ayrshire

492

60.4%

11.7

430

68.6%

13.0

429

62.0%

12.7

432

69.2%

11.8

East Dunbartonshire

662

84.1%

10.1

618

90.3%

8.7

623

92.5%

8.6

646

86.5%

9.4

East Lothian

738

83.3%

11.6

840

86.5%

10.7

749

87.0%

9.7

785

85.4%

9.0

East Renfrewshire

546

84.2%

8.3

581

85.0%

7.3

606

87.5%

7.0

600

91.8%

6.9

Edinburgh, City of

2,069

82.4%

8.3

2,148

80.6%

8.6

2,219

78.2%

9.1

2,253

79.0%

9.4

Falkirk

507

65.9%

11.7

514

79.6%

8.8

512

78.1%

8.9

493

80.3%

9.4

Fife

1,751

64.2%

12.8

1,756

60.3%

12.7

1,899

55.8%

11.9

1,768

58.9%

11.3

Glasgow City

1,403

69.6%

11.3

1,584

67.5%

11.0

1,503

69.3%

10.7

1,565

63.9%

10.6

Highland

2,436

67.3%

11.4

2,597

70.7%

10.6

2,383

70.9%

10.7

2,487

68.6%

10.6

Inverclyde

306

82.4%

7.7

303

86.8%

7.1

270

91.9%

7.0

279

91.0%

6.7

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs
NP

237

59.9%

12.3

201

63.7%

12.0

193

56.5%

12.2

223

39.0%

12.3

Midlothian

444

74.8%

10.8

424

85.1%

10.0

423

87.0%

8.4

488

83.0%

8.7

Moray

817

67.2%

14.9

856

83.3%

10.1

789

92.6%

7.2

718

94.6%

7.2

Na h-Eileanan Siar

413

59.1%

10.7

400

60.5%

9.8

353

64.3%

11.1

317

65.9%

8.6

North Ayrshire

457

90.8%

7.7

495

96.0%

6.2

471

97.7%

5.7

454

98.7%

5.3

North Lanarkshire

875

73.7%

11.3

917

87.5%

8.4

838

73.3%

9.2

858

68.9%

9.6

Orkney Islands

609

46.1%

10.7

381

62.7%

10.6

365

67.4%

9.0

435

64.4%

8.6

Perth & Kinross

1,449

69.4%

10.2

1,495

73.5%

10.3

1,412

72.1%

9.5

1,407

81.8%

9.1

Renfrewshire

556

78.8%

9.2

566

80.7%

7.8

532

80.8%

7.7

554

72.0%

8.6

Scottish Borders

947

64.2%

13.9

907

69.7%

16.6

912

68.0%

15.0

884

73.6%

12.1

Shetland Islands

286

68.2%

11.0

356

57.0%

11.0

294

57.1%

9.6

313

47.0%

12.3

South Ayrshire

722

86.7%

7.6

693

90.8%

7.1

736

79.5%

7.9

687

90.4%

6.4

South Lanarkshire

1,274

68.8%

11.9

1,327

67.3%

13.1

1,431

71.1%

10.9

1,375

72.8%

10.3

Stirling

580

78.4%

9.7

630

77.6%

9.5

579

73.7%

9.5

596

68.1%

10.3

West Dunbartonshire

213

83.1%

9.3

208

75.5%

9.8

180

75.0%

8.5

208

69.2%

8.8

West Lothian

574

73.2%

12.0

612

77.8%

9.2

570

83.9%

8.0

618

82.4%

8.7

SCOTLAND

29,332

69.4%

11.4

30,026

72.7%

10.6

29,739

72.1%

10.1

28,765

73.4%

9.8

South Ayrshire, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City have seen the
biggest improvements in the percentage of decisions made in less
than two months between 2014/15 to 2015/16.